Re: [orca-list] Orca and Fedora 11

[lars bjorndal broadpark no (Lars Bjørndal)]

Janina Sajka <janina rednote net> writes:

> Lars Bjørndal writes:
> > Cearbhall O'Meadhra <omeadhrac ncad ie> writes:
> >
> > > Hello Orca users,
> > >
> > > I wonder if anyone can help me with this problem?
> > >
> > > I got a shock today when I loaded fedora 11 and found that the PC responds
> > > very sluggishly when Orca is loaded. To check this, I unloaded Orca and my
> > > sighted colleague noted that the response was much livelier. How much, I
> > > cannot say as we did not measure it in any precise way. When I reloaded Orca
> > > the response went back to very sluggish. By this, I mean taking about full
> > > seconds to move the cursor between buttons on the Orca Preference General
> > > page. Likewise, on the Main menu.
> > >
> > > I thought it might have to do with Pulse Audio. This may be so, but we found
> > > that Fedora 11 is so engaged with Pulse Audio that the system warned that
> > > about fifteen major systems would be impaired by this action, including the
> > > main menu, the configuration tool and so on. 
> I am running with Fedora 11 on several machines. In all cases pulseaudio
> is disabled. Please note that I do not uninstall pulseaduio, but simply
> disable it by commenting line 9 in /etc/asound.conf so that it reads as
> follows:
>
> #                       "/etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf"
>
> As an assistive technology user, especially a speech-based screen reader
> user, you don't want pulseaudio as things stand today. You don't want it
> on the desktop for Orca, and you don't want it in the console for
> Speakup.

I've disabled pulseaudio that way too.

There is really something strange going on here. I use Orca with
espeak and Gnome-speech. If I type in an edit box, for example, Orca
reads letter by letter with very long pause between each letter. If I
change to festival, then things sounds different: Then, if I type
fast, two Festival voices speaks what I type, one over the other. It sounds
horrible!

Do you use Gnome-speech and espeak?

Lars

> Janina
>
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > I am running on a brand new PC with no other operating system running on it.
> >
> > I have the same problem. Switching from espeak to festival seems to
> > get better responsiveness.
> >
> > Lars
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